Lawmakers have offered few ideas on how to respond to the wave of ransom-seeking cyberattacks that have struck at least 80 state and local government agencies. Ransomware attacks paralyzed Baltimore’s computer networks for much of the spring, shutting down the systems that collect parking ticket fines and water bills. Hackers took …
With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever. Aging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. The slow way is the familiar one: decades pass with little sense of internal change, middle age arrives with …
SHEPTON MALLET, England (Reuters) – They may look like regular cows, but a herd of Friesian dairy cattle at a British farm are internet pioneers and they are enjoying the benefits of 5G connectivity before you. Cisco Systems Inc, which is developing network infrastructure for the emerging technology, has set …
The Amazon CEO published correspondence between his camp and a tabloid digging up dirt on his affair. Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. But that doesn’t mean he’s any different from you and me, the average joes. Jeff Bezos might command a sprawling retail empire and make …
The process involves two types of LEDs and a specially engineered chemical resin A new 3D-printing technique could render a three-dimensional object in minutes instead of hours—at up to 100 times current speeds. The experimental approach uses a vat of resin and some clever tricks with UV and blue LED lights (no …
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — In the Estonian capital of Tallinn, three-day-old Oskar Lunde sleeps soundly in his hospital cot, snuggled into a lime green blanket decorated with red butterflies. Across the room, his father turns on a laptop. “Now we will register our child,” Andrejs Lunde says with gravity as …
NASA tried a communications experiment with its latest mission to Mars, and it turned out spectacularly well. On Nov. 26, as the probe known as InSight plummeted through the Martian atmosphere on its way to the planet’s surface, two miniature spacecraft — known collectively as MarCO — relayed telemetry from …
Turns out, a lot of it, actually. In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” …
Growth in smartphone sales stopped surging years ago. In the next decade, they’re likely to decline. What does that world look like? From roughly 2007 until 2013, the smartphone market grew at an astonishing pace, posting double-digit growth year after year, even during a global recession. They were the good …
AMSTERDAM — What would happen if you peeled back the layers of a masterpiece by one of art history’s greatest painters? Dead bodies might suddenly appear. Take, for example, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s large-scale festival scene, “The Battle Between Carnival and Lent,” which he painted in 1559. If we look at his first …
An internal investigation at Facebook found that hackers broke into the accounts of about 30 million users, not 50 million as the company originally feared — but that many of those affected had reams of vital personal data stolen. The social media giant, embroiled in a series of controversies and …
